The American people currently hold the Republican Party in very low esteem, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that was released Thursday night.

In the poll, only 26 percent of respondents said they have a positive opinion of the GOP, including just six percent who said they have a "very" positive impression of the party. What's more, 49 percent said they view the party negatively — the highest negative rating given to Republicans in the NBC/WSJ survey since 2008.

The poll showed the Democratic Party, by contrast boasting, an above-water favorability rating: 44 percent of those polled said they have a positive opinion of Dems, compared with 38 percent who said they have a negative opinion.

Liberals have a stranglehold on the the education system, the press, and Hollywood. They control how the Republican party is by most of the people in this country. People are bombarded with anti-conservative propaganda every day both subtle and overt. Also, a HUGE percentage of the country doesn't have even a basic understanding of the issues that separate the two parties. They don't know who stands for what and why so I'm not interested in their opinion of the GOP. I have my own problems with the GOP but they are based in reality not off of some BS mockery that I heard on a television show or in a movie.